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Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

Shocking, lurid and completely unapologetic in its brutality, director Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE completely changed cinema following its debut in 1974. The film follows five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside who fall prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family. Violent, confrontational, and viscerally realistic, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on the politically and socially tumultuous America of the 1970s. Facing a storm of controversy, censorship, and outcry throughout its troubled release, this masterpiece of horror has stood the test of time to become a landmark motion picture and cultural milestone - most recently being named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress - while also establishing many of the tenets of what would become the gore/slasher/splatter genre. The screening will feature an exclusive sneak-peak, first-look at the forthcoming documentary CHAIN REACTIONS. This documentary, directed by Alexandre O. Phillipe, traces the incredibly diverse and lasting cultural impact of Texas Chain Saw Massacre since its release in 1974, and features in-depth interviews with Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama, Takashi Miike, and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.

Cast

  • Marilyn Burns
  • Allen Danziger
  • Paul A. Partain
  • William Vail
  • Teri McMinn
  • Edwin Neal
  • Jim Siedow
  • Gunnar Hansen
  • John Dugan
  • Robert Courtin

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Metacritic

100

No other later horror film – and certainly none of the many sequels to this one – captured so well the strangeness of living through a long night of evil and emerging into bright sunlight, with its tacit promise of restorative justice or virtue, or just normality.

Metacritic review by Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
100

The film has outstanding sound effects, art direction and editing, and a clutch of effective, if necessarily, one-note performances.

Metacritic review by Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire
50

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is as violent and gruesome and blood-soaked as the title promises -- a real Grand Guignol of a movie. It’s also without any apparent purpose, unless the creation of disgust and fright is a purpose. And yet in its own way, the movie is some kind of weird, off-the-wall achievement. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to make a movie like this, and yet it’s well-made, well-acted, and all too effective.

Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times